Three months to save Pakistan

The bomb attacks in Lahore at the end of May claimed by the Taliban make a resolution of the the situation in Pakistan all the more urgent. The major army offensive in the Swat valley has created well over a million refugees. Can the Obama administration help save the situation?

by Najam Sethi

As the offensive against the Taliban continued in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier province (NWFP), the people of the Swat valley have been fleeing the war zone. Since the launch of military operations on 26 April, the army and paramilitaries have used tanks, artillery, mortar, helicopter gunships (...)